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Q2 Summary

I am grateful for Tarides’ sponsorship of my OCaml work. Below is a summary of my activities in Q2 2025.

18 Jul 2025

Marc Elvers

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Sometimes it’s just knowing where to tap

```diff @@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ # the lines involved in the conflict, which is arguably worse #/Changes merge=union

18 Jul 2025

David Allsopp's Blog

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Into the sunset or into the dawn?

Earlier this year, I returned to the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge, as part of the Energy and Environment Group, combining with my work at Tarides. It’s been something of a whirlwind, which doesn’t look like it’ll be abating just yet, but there’s still been the odd chance to consider where things are and where we might be headed.

18 Jul 2025

David Allsopp's Blog

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Fireworks and things

Thanks to some targetted optimisations in the script which manages Relocatable OCaml’s various branches, I’d vastly improved the turn-around time when making changes to the patch-set and propagating them through the various tests and backports. On Tuesday night, the entire set of branches was green in CI (they’re sat here with green check marks and everything).

17 Jul 2025

David Allsopp's Blog

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Reflink Copy

I hadn’t intended to write another post about traversing a directory structure or even thinking about it again, but weirdly, it just kept coming up again!

15 Jul 2025

Marc Elvers

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